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Storm Ciara - Reports/Chat/Non Technical

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    #812
    SleetAndSnow
    Registered Users Posts: 4,677 ✭✭✭SleetAndSnow


    Yep same here down in cork, some strong gusts all day and bitterly cold ones at that. When the showers came it got very gusty. There was some periods in the afternoon when the sun came out and you felt some warmth


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    #813
    ZX7R
    Registered Users Posts: 3,426 ✭✭✭ZX7R


    MJohnston wrote: »
    In fairness, it's not elitist. The big weather event threads usually become a rapid fire cauldron of "will my flight be cancelled?", "this is a non-event here in my mum's basement", "Met Eireann should be fired into the sun for over/underhyping this one", along with joke posts and just general chat.

    If you're looking to browse some actual technical charts and see some expert discussion of them, there becomes nowhere to go to do this! And that's a bit of a kick in the teeth to the hard-working mods and posters who populate this forum in the off-seasons.

    If boards was a more technically capable platform, perhaps with the ability to thread conversations and "highlight" particularly useful posts, maybe we could get away with single threads, but otherwise, I'd like to keep seeing technical discussion threads.

    You will always get stupid posts to be fair.

    Problem is to be fair most just post up a graph get 10 or so likes and very little expert discussion about it.
    To be honest only Mt has the credentials to be called an expert.
    The rest are excellent amateur enthusiasts.
    Also having the two treads didn't really work for one reason, the big posters who do post technical information did not have there none technical posts removed.
    Just because someone does not post a graph or a run from s model out does not mean they do not add or have something to add to the discussion.


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    #814
    loughside
    Registered Users Posts: 497 ✭✭loughside


    decent covering here today, 2 to 3 inches, roads now clear but still plenty in the fields etc - newry/banbridge, co.down

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    #815
    Kermit.de.frog
    Registered Users Posts: 23,495 ✭✭✭✭Kermit.de.frog


    Snow on the cars here nio in north Dub. Looks like I missed a few flakes.

    I like flakes :(


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    #816
    Nqp15hhu
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 2,254 ✭✭✭Nqp15hhu


    loughside wrote: »
    decent covering here today, 2 to 3 inches, roads now clear but still plenty in the fields etc - newry/banbridge, co.down

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    What elevation are you at?


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    #817
    Nqp15hhu
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 2,254 ✭✭✭Nqp15hhu


    https://i.imgur.com/pjrmJ7D.jpg


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    #818
    Nqp15hhu
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 2,254 ✭✭✭Nqp15hhu


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    Some photos of today’s hike to around 400m. Powder snow but very windy.


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    #819
    loughside
    Registered Users Posts: 497 ✭✭loughside


    Nqp15hhu wrote: »
    What elevation are you at?


    We`re spot on 400feet

    ps. another covering of snow just now, seems to be freezing at the minute


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    #820
    TTLF
    Registered Users Posts: 671 ✭✭✭TTLF
    save the trouble and jazz it up




    I made a video About this whole storm Ciara/snow experience for boards to see!
    took 4 days to make


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    #821
    Rougies
    Registered Users Posts: 2,674 ✭✭✭Rougies


    TTLF wrote: »

    I made a video About this whole storm Ciara/snow experience for boards to see!
    took 4 days to make


    Thanks for making that. Constructive criticism; maybe keep your camera still for a few seconds at least? It feels like I'm watching the world through the eyes of a jack russel terrier looking at live rats falling from the sky.


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    #822
    Nqp15hhu
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 2,254 ✭✭✭Nqp15hhu


    loughside wrote: »
    We`re spot on 400feet

    ps. another covering of snow just now, seems to be freezing at the minute

    That’s odd! Snow has been struggling to lie below 200m in most places.


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    #823
    [Deleted User]
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    And, of course, it has froze. Rotten fecks didn’t treat any roads as far as I can see either.


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    #824
    SEPT 23 1989
    Registered Users Posts: 43,024 ✭✭✭✭SEPT 23 1989


    It's like an ice rink


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    #825
    kingshankly
    Registered Users Posts: 7,541 ✭✭✭kingshankly


    Storm Ciara packed quite a punch here in south armagh 500 ft asl just had 3 solid days of high winds no let up at all then 7/8 hours of snow last night to top it off looking forward to some milder days on the horizon


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    #826
    Kermit.de.frog
    Registered Users Posts: 23,495 ✭✭✭✭Kermit.de.frog


    kingshankly wrote: »
    looking forward to some milder days on the horizon

    You won't get them :P


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    #827
    The White Wolf
    Registered Users Posts: 5,157 ✭✭✭The White Wolf


    SEPT 23 1989 wrote: »
    It's like an ice rink

    Brutal...should have took my laptop home yesterday. :pac:


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    #828
    redsteveireland
    Registered Users Posts: 3,033 ✭✭✭redsteveireland


    Well that sums up the pain of searching for snow from an Atlantic muck event. - 1.5c with cars and roads frozen at the house, few minutes later on the motorway, lashing rain and the temp jumped to +2.0c


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    #829
    Dickerty
    Registered Users Posts: 7,872 ✭✭✭Dickerty


    SEPT 23 1989 wrote: »
    It's like an ice rink

    I found out to my demise, 3 mins from the end of my cycle, in Fairview Park on a patch of ice. Nice purple hip for my troubles. Thanks Ciara!


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    #830
    cherryghost
    Moderators, Technology & Internet Moderators Posts: 17,133 Mod ✭✭✭✭cherryghost


    Well I fell flat on my arse this morning. Paths were deadly and there was ice on the grass because they were still partially flooded. No grit on the roads where I am either from what I can see.


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    #831
    Andrew00
    Registered Users Posts: 2,484 ✭✭✭Andrew00


    My mam crashed the car this morning. Roads are lethal. No salt put down either


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    #832
    Nqp15hhu
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 2,254 ✭✭✭Nqp15hhu


    redsteveireland wrote: »
    Well that sums up the pain of searching for snow from an Atlantic muck event. - 1.5c with cars and roads frozen at the house, few minutes later on the motorway, lashing rain and the temp jumped to +2.0c

    You need to live above 200 metres really and even then any lying snow will be marginal and slushy.

    From my hiking experience yesterday, the proper dry and frozen snow was above 350m-400m.


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    #833
    Danno
    Registered Users Posts: 8,913 ✭✭✭Danno


    Another 1cm on the ground from overnight snow showers going through south Laois.

    It seems east Tipp, north Kilkenny, Laois, Carlow, Wicklow and into Kildare done the best for snow out of this event, conversely these areas do best in summer heatwaves too. It's our "mini-continental" weather micro-climate!


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    #834
    Nqp15hhu
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 2,254 ✭✭✭Nqp15hhu


    We have had further snow showers this morning. I have just drove over a 250m road and it was quite hairy!

    No snowplough or salter. The road was completely white!

    I thought we were warming up today? It was -0c up there.


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    #835
    Nqp15hhu
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 2,254 ✭✭✭Nqp15hhu


    Danno wrote: »
    Another 1cm on the ground from overnight snow showers going through south Laois.

    It seems east Tipp, north Kilkenny, Laois, Carlow, Wicklow and into Kildare done the best for snow out of this event, conversely these areas do best in summer heatwaves too. It's our "mini-continental" weather micro-climate!

    Did you? I think Ulster did better.


    We had some snow showers this morning that topped up the snow above 200m.


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    #836
    Danno
    Registered Users Posts: 8,913 ✭✭✭Danno


    Nqp15hhu wrote: »
    Did you? I think Ulster did better.


    We had some snow showers this morning that topped up the snow above 200m.
    Was it not a mostly upland event across Ulster except for a few sheltered spots such as Newry?


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    #837
    Oneiric 3
    Registered Users Posts: 6,235 ✭✭✭Oneiric 3


    redsteveireland wrote: »
    Well that sums up the pain of searching for snow from an Atlantic muck event. - 1.5c with cars and roads frozen at the house, few minutes later on the motorway, lashing rain and the temp jumped to +2.0c

    It was just unwalkable outside this morning. Black ice galore!

    New Moon



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    #838
    Pretzill
    Registered Users Posts: 4,683 ✭✭✭Pretzill


    There was another smattering of snow this morning it was icy AF - had to put off an early appointment and only ventured out when it began to thaw - dodgy.

    S. sligo
    90m asl


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    #839
    Nqp15hhu
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 2,254 ✭✭✭Nqp15hhu


    Ulster is the best located for snow on the island..


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    #840
    cnocbui
    Registered Users Posts: 19,753 ✭✭✭✭cnocbui


    Snow-10-2-20-15.jpg

    Keeper Hill hiding it's peak
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    Lough Derg
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    Tintinna
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    #841
    m17
    Registered Users Posts: 4,322 ✭✭✭m17


    Slieve bloom mountains this morning
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